Friday, December 3rd 2021
Windows 11 a Flop, Survey Claims Less Than 1% Upgraded, Microsoft Improves Start Menu
Microsoft Windows 11, now nearing its third month since release, is for all intents and purposes, a flop. Market research by Lansweeper, which surveyed over 10 million PCs across the commercial and personal market segments, reports that less than 0.21% of the users it surveyed, had upgraded from Windows 10 to the newer operating system. The upgrade is free of charge. There may be several factors contributing to this lukewarm market response, but one of them is certain to he the steep hardware requirements. Windows 11 requires a trusted platform module (TPM 2.0), which disqualifies PCs older than 2018 for upgrades, unless the user is willing to try out workarounds to the limitation. Another factor could be the clunky user interface (UI), a less functional Start menu than Windows 10, and several UI-related bugs.
According to Lansweeper's data, there could be more people running outdated Windows XP, Vista, Windows 8, etc., than Windows 11, and this poses a great security risk, as these operating systems are no longer supported by Microsoft for regular security updates. Windows 10, on the other hand, is eligible for them until mid-2025—plenty of time for people to upgrade hardware to meet Windows 11 system requirements, or to simply make up their mind on switching over to the new operating system. In related news, Microsoft could give the Windows 11 Start menu a functional update. Test build 22509 introduces the ability to add more pins to the menu, or make room for more recommendations. The UI could see many such minor updates.
Sources:
Tech Radar PRO, HotHardware
According to Lansweeper's data, there could be more people running outdated Windows XP, Vista, Windows 8, etc., than Windows 11, and this poses a great security risk, as these operating systems are no longer supported by Microsoft for regular security updates. Windows 10, on the other hand, is eligible for them until mid-2025—plenty of time for people to upgrade hardware to meet Windows 11 system requirements, or to simply make up their mind on switching over to the new operating system. In related news, Microsoft could give the Windows 11 Start menu a functional update. Test build 22509 introduces the ability to add more pins to the menu, or make room for more recommendations. The UI could see many such minor updates.
393 Comments on Windows 11 a Flop, Survey Claims Less Than 1% Upgraded, Microsoft Improves Start Menu
1: Explorer UI ribbon absolutely crap, Windows 10 ribbon design was way more useful.
2: Have to use show more settings when right clicking to have basic options or even show the nvidia settings button, what prat designed this?
3: Right clicking on the taskbar has all the options removed so I'm forced to right click on the start button, horrible design choice.
4: In 11 I can no longer ungroup program/folder icons on the taskbar so I'm forced to show icons instead of the individual open program/folders with their names, another horrible UI choice that the user can't even change this time like I could in 10, so rapidly switching open things on the taskbar now requires and extra step by hovering over the icon to see what's on it.
Thankfully startallback restores all that basic functionality, but I shouldn't be forced to use a 3rd party program because of a pathetic UI experience that has worked fine for decades.
Whoever signed off on these new UI choices that can't be changed without 3rd party software needs to be shot.
Changing spark plugs is not difficult
Dissassembling and cleaning a furnace is not difficult.
Lots of things in life are not difficult. Just because YOU can do it with your eyes shut does not mean 99% of people A) have that level of confidence and B) are interested and willing enough to put the effort in.
And as a beside, with MS stating they will not update 11 installations installed on unsupported systems, every time a major update comes out you'll need to manually installs the update. That's taking the inconvenience of auto updates in the total wrong direction. And there is no gurarantee that MS wont break said installation later, in the same way you can run a windows 10 install on a pentium III, there is 0 guarantee you can keep it working, which is what 99% of users want.
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Look up Windows 1.0's commercial by Steve Ballmer, btw, it's a gem :laugh:
If I am right, probably fixable with ntlite.
As for the control panel, they're obfuscating it further despite still being 100% reliant on it. They STILL haven't f*cking finished migrating everything to the settings app, so why bury it further if it's an unavoidable requirement. Rather than finish doing what they promised to do with Windows 8 nine years ago and replace it completely, they're just hurting their current UI and user experience by delaying the inevitable and running this schizophrenic bullshit solution that pushes the settings app in your face despite it lacking the required functionality to actually change half the settings you're looking for.
If I were a teacher grading Windows 11 as Microsoft's homework assignment I'd tear it up and throw it in the trash as they watched. "Do it again properly otherwise you're going to be meeting with the principal about your bad attitude to your work!"
* - I've yet to see a single streamer, reviewer, vlogger, blogger, forum post anywhere stating that someone thinks it's better than W10's interface.
That's one of the most bizarre aspects of Windows 10 I can think of.
Honestly, the control panel itself is way more usable than the new one. Slap a search feature in it and it's good for another 10 years.
Moving one or two things per year is so slow that they won't be done for another 15 years at that pace.
I've also noticed that searching the start menu for control panel functions doesn't give results any more, it pushes you only at settings. They are trying to push people towards the settings app but we don't use the control panel by choice, we use it because we have to - Microsoft haven't finished making the alternative after a decade of seemingly pissing into the wind.